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EDA Movie Screening Plastic Oceans Bundle 11.06.26

We want to thank those who came to our EDA Movie Screening on Thursday the 11th of June at Deep Dive Dubai. It was great to see you all and meet some new members! @plasticoceans curated a bundle of award-winning documentaries for us to screen through their impact film distribution: @seepositivechange. This screening opened up important conversations […]

Reef Check Certification Dive Group 20.06.26

Congratulations to our 9 newly certified EcoDivers for passing their Reef Check Fish, Invertebrates, and Substrates exams on Saturday at 3 Rocks in Dibba, Fujairah! They are now able to join any organised Indo-Pacific Reef Check surveys. We will be announcing our next survey dive soon enough.  Everyone stayed on for a second fun dive […]

CUA D-Marin Marsa Al Arab 07.02.26

We had an amazing underwater clean-up event to mark the UAE National Environment day at D-Marin Marsa Al Arab on Saturday the 7th of February. Our divers brought up a whopping 807.6kg of waste from our marine environment. That is a record for a single dive site clean-up!   Our divers headed to the opposite […]

CUA Dubai Harbour Marinas 10.01.26

We had such a fun morning with everyone for the first Cleanup Arabia dive clean-up of 2026 on the 10th of January at Dubai Harbour!  Well done to all our divers for successfully bringing up 429.4kg of waste in the allocated one hour dive time. Sadly, plastic bottles (356), plastic cups (144), and plastic bags […]

MaRHE Centre Maldives Workshop 9-14.10.25

Eight EDA members were recently honoured with a one time invitation to travel to the Maldives and take part in a 6-day workshop with the MaRHE Centre based on Magoodhoo Island. @divewithesther, @drrsgriffiths, @pauljohnmamiit, @holly_pelser, @juanmlaz, @svetym, @gordon.t.smith, and @perrinetilloy were led by EDA’s Project Director @allylandesphotography to join @davide_seveso, Enrico and @jacopogobbato who spent the week teaching the group about the Maldivian Atolls, coral reefs, coral reef threats […]

UAE Dolphin Project Presentation 30.05.24

We want to thank everyone who came to Dr Ada Natoli’s UAE Dolphin Project Initiative presentation last night at @deepdivedubai. We learnt so much about the whales, dolphins and porpoises of the UAE.  The data is fascinating and best of all, you can all contribute to the conservation efforts towards the protection of these charismatic species […]

NYUAD’s OceanX Presentation 25.01.24

Thank you to the @nyuad.marinebiology research team for sharing their collaborative work with @oceanx for our members last Thursday at @deepdivedubai, and deepening the understanding of UAE waters, exploring ecosystems, biodiversity, and microbiology.  OceanX, a global ocean exploration nonprofit, recently signed a partnership to support the New York University Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala ACCESS Centre team and welcomed them onboard to […]

Freestyle Divers’ Project REEFrame Presentation 22.08.24

@darrylowen7350 from @freestyle_divers gave a fantastic presentation on their Project REEFrame to our members last night at @deepdivedubai, followed by a Q&A. Project REEFrame is a unique scientific community programme that protects and restores coastal ecosystems in the UAE. It brings volunteers, corporates, schools, academia and governments together to actively create positive ocean impacts. It delivers education to people […]

Climate Fresk for International Women’s Day 31.03.23

For International Women’s Day, 8 likeminded ladies involved in careers related to environmental/marine conservation and sustainability took part in a Climate Change Workshop run by @goumbook’s Natacha Seker @dubai4good, called Climate Fresk. What is the Climate Fresk?It’s a collaborative workshop on climate change with different sets of cards that teams of 5 to 8 people have to […]

Archireef’s Nature Tech Presentation 19.10.23

We want to thank everyone who joined us last Thursday at @deepdivedubai to hear how Archireef’s nature tech ventures are leveraging technology to restore coral reefs. We had such a wonderful turnout and audience participation in the Q&A.  With more than 50% of the world’s coral cover lost already, the world is facing a food shortage, reduced […]

Amos Nachoum Presentation 13.04.23

It was such an honour to have professional wildlife photographer and explorer, Amos Nachoum @amosnachoumphotography come to the UAE and present to our members both in Abu Dhabi through @diveabudhabi on the 11th of April, and in Dubai at @deepdivedubai on the 13th of April. His journey into underwater photography and conservation since 1978 in search of these great adventures was […]

CUA D-Marin Port de La Mer 6.12.25

And that’s a wrap! We held our final underwater clean-up of 2025 on Saturday the 6th of December making it our 9th event – concluding, we removed a total of 1,911.026kg this year! We had such a fun morning yesterday for our second underwater clean-up with @dmarinmiddleeast at Port de La Mer! Last year, we collected 565.2kg […]

EDA Youth Programme Coral Vita Field Trip 31.05.24

We had a great field trip with our youth members last Thursday at Coral Vita @coralvitareefs and @dpworlduae. We went to learn how they raise healthy corals from fragments taken from local corals found in Dubai in their farm, with the aim to out-plant them back into the sea at a restoration site once they are mature. Their […]

EDA Youth Programme Mercato Beach Clean-up for Earth Day 19.04.24

A big shout out to our younger members for participating in the first Youth Programme Beach Clean-up to mark the occasion of Earth Day 2024! They collected 8kg of rubbish in total near Mercato Beach and 1,414 cigarette butts to go to @goumbook’s ‘Save the Butts – Waste to Value’ programme which adopts a Circular Economy […]

Reef Check Survey & Clean-up Dive 15.06.25

To mark this year’s World Environment Day and World Ocean Day, we ran a Reef Check Survey and a clean-up dive along the UAE’s east coast. We had a fantastic day out on the water with @diversdownuae in Khorfakkan for a Reef Check survey at Shark Island done by 6 EDA certified Reef Checkers: @ali_salman_dxb, Matthew B. Nobles, […]

Reef Check Certification Dive Group 25.05.25

Meet our newest Reef Checkers! We had a beautiful morning out on the boat on Sunday the 25th of May with @diversdownuae after a cancelled dive the weekend before due to weather conditions.  6 of our students escaped the Dubai heat and spent the morning in Fujairah waters exploring different fish indicator species, counting invertebrates and seeing […]

Presentation by Emirates Nature – WWF 6.02.25

Thank you to Daniel Mateos and Paula Clemente Abad for the great presentation they gave us last night on the work done at Emirates Nature-WWF (@ews_wwf) to protect the marine megafauna of the UAE and the Gulf region.  It was a captivating evening hearing from Daniel about all the research done on turtle conservation, the […]

EDA Movie Screening Patrick and the Whale 6.11.25

Thank you to everyone who came to our November EDA Movie Screening last night to watch Patrick and the Whale with us! It was lovely catching up with all of our members. Thank you to @deepdivedubai for the continued support in making these events happen. We also want to thank @terramater for making this beautiful film available to us.  […]

EDA Movie Screening Secrets of the Sea 1.05.25

We screened the gorgeous short documentary film, Secrets of the Sea for our members last night at @deepdivedubai.  Showcasing some of the ocean’s strangest and most spectacular creatures, Secrets of the Sea shows the fascinating ways marine critters interact with each other and their environment. Many marine animals depend on one another for survival, and the film demonstrates […]

EDA Movie Screening Fighting for Florida 6.03.25

It was such a privilege to host the first ever screening of @wildlifewilson’s new documentary film, @fightingforfloridafilm last night for our members at @deepdivedubai. This beautiful, inspiring film is a must watch!  “This eye-opening, documentary film captures the breathtaking underwater beauty of the Sunshine State while shedding light on urgent environmental issues such as shark conservation and nutrient pollution. […]

CUA Dubai Harbour Marinas 11.05.25

We had a fantastic finale to our underwater clean-ups this season as we now take a pause during the hot summer months.  Well done to all our members yesterday morning for persevering through the humidity, and thank you for all your hard work dedicated to cleaning our marine environment.  We want to thank our partner, @dubaiharbour for […]

CUA DP World La Mer Beach Clean-up 24.04.25

We had another successful beach clean-up yesterday morning with the @dpworlduae team! They powered on to clean-up our marine environment at the public beach at La Mer which is always in desperate need of TLC. We had some help from a few beach goers and neighbourhood residents who visited the beach for their morning exercise, filling […]

CUA Dubai Offshore Sailing Club 19.04.25

Thank you to all our members for all their hard work committed to cleaning our marine environment, to our partners at @doscuae, @imdaadofficial, @dubai.voluntary.diving, and to our Strategic Partner @dpworlduae who allow us to hold more of these events throughout the year, they are an honour to host.  This clean-up was done on Saturday the 19th of April at the […]

CUA Wisdom House La Mer Beach Clean-up 14.02.25

A big thank you to the @wisdomhouse.international (a premium hospitality and F&B Consulting firm) team for performing their CSR beach clean-up activity with EDA on the 14th of February. They showed some love for our marine environment at La Mer, which needed some TLC.  There are countless cigarette butts, food wrappers, plastic cutlery, plastic and metal bottle […]

EDA Youth Programme Nurdle Hunt for UAE National Environment Day 4.02.25

A big round of applause to our 2 youth member champions, Hasan (@ali_salman_dxb) and Sultan (@obaidxb) for showing up to the Nurdle Hunt in recognition of the UAE National Environment Day on Tuesday afternoon! We collected 50g of nurdles, and in the last 5 minutes of the clean-up to spare, we sweeped an area of […]

CUA Yasmina British Academy AUH Beach Clean-up 14.01.25

On Tuesday the 14th of January, 21 primary students and 25 secondary students from @aayasminaacademy, Abu Dhabi came together for a beach clean-up activity! They did a stellar job at tallying the items they collected and their final result was 147kg, filling up 19 bags. Well done teams! There were a lot of construction materials, ropes, […]

CUA D-Marin Marsa Al Arab 11.01.25

On Saturday the 11th of January, EDA members, in partnership with @dpworlduae, @dmarinmiddleeast, and @imdaadofficial, successfully removed 467kg of ocean waste from D-Marin’s Marsa Al Arab Marina with 37 divers and a 20-strong support team as part of this year’s first Cleanup Arabia campaign! A big shout out to everyone for another successful clean-up morning, and thank you […]

CUA Palm Jumeirah East Marina 15.11.25

We had another great morning yesterday during another successful underwater clean-up, this time at the Palm Jumeirah Marina East with 37 divers! We want to thank our event partner, @palmjumeirah_dubaiislands for hosting this clean-up in their marina and for their team’s support, @imdaadofficialour waste management partner for retrieving the collection, the @dubai.voluntary.diving team for all of their support, and to […]